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Welcome Willy, our newest Team System Ranger
I’m pleased to welcome Willy-Peter Schaub to the Team System team as our newest Ranger.  Willy is a former Microsoft MVP from South Africa (his old blog can be found here: http://dotnet.org.za/willy/ ) and has recently joined us to help further the Read More...
Posted 08 February 09 02:50 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Check out our updated website
The next update to our Team System website has been made with an eye towards helping make things easier to find.  Sharon, our web site manager, has been working very hard to help address the feedback we’ve gotten in the past and is very eager to Read More...
Posted 08 February 09 02:35 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Listen to me on Radio TFS
The Radio TFS folks called me at home just before the holidays and spent the better part of an hour talking about what I do, some of the history of Team System and where we’re headed with our 2010 release.  As I’ve mentioned previously , it’s a fun Read More...
Posted 29 December 08 03:08 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Updated Visual Studio Team System 2008 Trial VPC images available
For those of you that want to try out Visual Studio Team System 2008 including Team Foundation Server, without having to go through the process of installing the product, we have recently released four VPC and HyperV images for your use.  The “all-up” Read More...
Posted 26 December 08 01:30 by jeffbe | 6 Comments   
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TFS Branching Guide 2.0 published
I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but the VSTS Rangers have shipped again! This time, in the form of guidance for branching strategies using Team Foundation Server. You can find this release on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSBranchingGuideII Read More...
Posted 21 December 08 02:21 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Check out the new Community tab on the Team System website!
As I mentioned recently, Sharon Elkins is our new website manager for Team System and she’s starting to make some changes to the site. Some of those first updates went live today and we’d love your feedback. You can see the new page here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/bb964396.aspx Read More...
Posted 12 December 08 02:34 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration
If you’ve been using the Team System 2010 Community Tech Preview VPC , you’ve probably noticed that the instance of Visual Studio within the VPC is getting close to expiring.  We expect that it will cease functioning around the end of the year and Read More...
Posted 09 December 08 01:36 by jeffbe | 40 Comments   
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Team System has a new website manager!
A few months I grew my team by one person when we brought Sharon Elkins on board to manage the Team System website .  This is the first time we’ve had someone dedicated fulltime to our website and as such, I’m really excited that she’s joined our Read More...
Posted 07 December 08 03:31 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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Using Team System for SharePoint development
From all indications, Microsft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) adoption is growing quickly as it provides an easy way to share information, facilitate collaboration, manage content, and implement workflow within enterprises.  We use it daily here Read More...
Posted 13 July 08 03:25 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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Guidance Explorer: enabling discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance
Several of our MVPs just recently “discovered” the Guidance Explorer project run by our very on patterns & practices team even though it’s been released for some time now.  Since this was a surprise to many of them, I figured it’d be good mention Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 04:06 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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Welcome Grant!
Grant Holliday , a former Team System MVP, recently joined our team focused on adoption of TFS internal to Microsoft.  Since he’s a veteran TFS user, he hit the ground running and now is a voracious force on the internal support aliases.  I’m Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:47 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Team System community update posted
Chuck Sterling , our Team System community lead, has posted a copy of his monthly update on community activities to his blog.  In the past, these updates have been only for internal consumption but, at my behest, he posted the most recent update Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:33 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Localized hotfix pages now available
We have hit another milestone on our journey to improve our process around delivering hotfixes to customers.  Now, not only will the most commonly requested hotfixes be available for download in English, but in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 03:28 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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Tools for Agility - A white paper by Kent Beck
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy , a product manager on our team, recently worked with Kent Beck to publish a great white paper on tooling for the agile team. The section on transparency really resonated with me especially this passage: A transparent team can more Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:57 by jeffbe | 2 Comments   
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PDC2008
As you may have heard, registration is now open for the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference happening in October! PDC2008 is going to be packed with all of the latest information about the future of the Microsoft development platform. For Read More...
Posted 05 July 08 02:28 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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